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Nikon DSLR owners have been longing for an affordable, pro-quality, lightweight 70-200mm telephoto zoom lens -- although affordable is, of course, a relative term. The FX-format AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/4G ED VR telephoto zoom lens, priced at US$1,400, sells for US$1,000 less than the much-beloved AF-S Nikkor...

 

Photo by Seth Casteel

What is it about these underwater dogs photos that the Internet just can't seem to get enough of? A few weeks ago we posted this super slow motion video of dogs catching balls underwater and got a great response from Imaging Resource readers.

Now here's a behind-the-scenes video from ABC News...

 

 

The Samsung NX20 may look and feel like a digital SLR, but it's a compact system camera through and through. This small camera with a big 20.3-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor is capable of taking winning photos with lots of gorgeous detail along with top-notch full HD videos. Even better, if you like sharing your...

 

 

Epson introduced three new canvases today, which it will show at PhotoPlus Expo. The Signature Worthy canvases are available in three finishes, like the company's previous offerings, but are much lighter weight, do not use optical brighteners and yet are still quite bright.

The big news is that the Exhibition...

 

 

(Editor's note: Photographer Alan Sailer captured the spectacular images of exploding cameras on this page with a Nikon D90, using high-speed photography techniques. The following is text he sent us explaining the process behind these mind-blowing shots. To see more of Sailer's images, check out his Flickr page.)

 

 

The Swedish company Memoto has ingeniously come up with a way to avoid those nasty fingerprints on LCDs, the need for pupil-shrinking covers and skins and -- most importantly of all -- anticipating the right moment to snap the shutter.

The no-hands Memoto wearable camera automatically "captures every moment of...

 

 

The movie and TV guys convinced Canon they need uncompressed HMDI output so Canon released a firmware update to the 5D Mark III that does just that. Canon said it makes for "more efficient video editing and monitoring procedures."

But the firmware update has a benefit for still photographers, too, with improved...

 

 

What do you get when you place a Nikon D80 and a flash in a haunted house and have it automatically shoot a photo at one of the most frightening moments? Some hilarious photos of some very, very scared people.

That's what they've done once again at the Nightmares Fear Factory in Niagra Falls, Canada and some of...

 

 

Pentax released the 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 ED AL [IF] DC SMC DA WR in November of 2010 as a companion lens for the then K-5 and now K-5 II body: offering water resistance (the new "WR" monicker), a new DC ("direct current") motor and a longer reach than its previous kit lens, we've put this lens through its paces in...

 

 

We tend not to get too excited about sensor dust problems here; we clean sensors on every camera after every rental, so it’s just routine. When we started carrying the Nikon D600 they all arrived with a fair amount of dust, but that’s pretty routine too.

Manufacturing and shipping can be a dusty experience.
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We know Mondays can be hard so please enjoy this crispy fresh video of two guys surfing through the streets of New York City on motorized surfboards.

We're not sure what the point is -- probably part of a viral campaign to promote the new Chasing Mavericks surf movie -- but it's a nice way to start the week.
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There are lots of ways to print photos off your iPhone but most of them are more complicated than necessary. The Photo Cube, on the other hand, provides a simple solution for getting your iPhone shots output quickly as high-quality, 4x6-inch photo prints.

This straight forward dye-sub printer is controlled via a...

 

 

I would like to work for Japan Trust Technology. While other camera manufacturers are locked into serious competition to outdo one another’s photographic advances, JTT definitely marches to the (off)beat of its own drummer. Recently, Camera Bag Editor Dan Havlik reported on the JTT CHOBi Cam Smile Smiley Face Pin...

 

 

Another episode of celebrity photographer Mark Seliger's show CAPTURE is up on YouTube and this one is well worth a look too.

On the show (embedded below), Seliger talks to legendary rock photographer Bob Gruen and actor Kevin Bacon about some of Gruen's most famous images.

Particularly interesting is a...

 

 

Conventional wisdom is that you need a pigment printer to convince customers your prints are permanent. Wiser souls, though, know nothing is permanent. And wise guys are quick to point out that the trick is to have the prints outlive you.

For a long time dye prints have been capable of that. And they've extended...

In 2011, Steve Crist of AMMO Books published EDWARD WESTON: 125 PHOTOGRAPHS, with photos from scans of the photographer's original prints from an extensive collection at at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona.

This was a slip-cased, large format book with high quality printing on heavy paper, and while it was reportedly a very nice item for collectors,...

 

 

We've seen a couple of attempts to create a quality right angle lens for the iPhone, but the HiLO Lens seems like one of the better products yet. Check out the video at the bottom of this page, showing the HiLO being used to easily capture images from low and high angles, which it's hard to do with an iPhone in its...

 

 

Last week, we got to test the new Sony Alpha A99 in the field at a special Sony shooting event in San Francisco. And now we have the A99 in our lab, with our first studio test shots posted.

Here are some first impressions from IR founder and publisher Dave Etchells:

"The Sony A99 is really pretty incredible. I...

 

 

What monster is this just a few days from Halloween? A new medium format camera for Lomographers? With auto exposure? And three aspect ratios? Long and multiple exposure capability? Interchangeable lenses?

Not only that, but the Belair X 6-12 comes in three models:

• The Globetrotter edition has a beautiful...